Gotten
Nov 8, 2012 09:31:41 #
Intersting. We in the UK never use the word 'gotten' as you do in the US.However, research has shown me that it is an old English word much used many years ago so I guess you guys are right to use it.
Nov 8, 2012 11:10:24 #
A bit like autumn and fall. When the pilgrim fathers left England, we used to call it leaves fall. It just got shortened. But I'll never understand why the Americans say "erb" when the word "herb" quite clearly has an "h" in it.
Nov 8, 2012 11:55:38 #
Nov 8, 2012 12:33:49 #
tlbuljac wrote:
I think I've "gotten" used to it
I think I've become used to it. "gotten" should be used in the same way as "obtained", as in "ill gotten gains".
Nov 9, 2012 08:07:14 #
Nov 9, 2012 10:41:22 #
viscountdriver wrote:
Intersting. We in the UK never use the word 'gotten' as you do in the US.However, research has shown me that it is an old English word much used many years ago so I guess you guys are right to use it.
Get - got - have gotten are the tenses. What do you say in England for "gotten"? Do you always say "obtained" or "acquired"?
Nov 9, 2012 11:26:05 #
liebgard wrote:
Get - got - have gotten are the tenses. What do you say in England for "gotten"? Do you always say "obtained" or "acquired"?
viscountdriver wrote:
Intersting. We in the UK never use the word 'gotten' as you do in the US.However, research has shown me that it is an old English word much used many years ago so I guess you guys are right to use it.
Get - got - have gotten are the tenses. What do you say in England for "gotten"? Do you always say "obtained" or "acquired"?
No, we're not that posh. We just say "I/we got" such and such a thing (as in "I got a new camera") (I wish!). Much shorter than "I/we have gotten...."
Nov 9, 2012 11:30:15 #
bwrep1 wrote:
This from somebody who can't spell East.
Can't see the word East having been used in this thread. Am I missing something?
Nov 9, 2012 18:03:38 #
liebgard wrote:
Get - got - have gotten are the tenses. What do you say in England for "gotten"? Do you always say "obtained" or "acquired"?
viscountdriver wrote:
Intersting. We in the UK never use the word 'gotten' as you do in the US.However, research has shown me that it is an old English word much used many years ago so I guess you guys are right to use it.
Get - got - have gotten are the tenses. What do you say in England for "gotten"? Do you always say "obtained" or "acquired"?
I get it,....got it here,....where I obtained it,....and the rest of us also acquired it.
Nov 9, 2012 18:25:24 #
Not all of us in the UK say I got, If I buy a camera..I say I bought a camera and if I borrow a camera, I say I borrowed a camera. As for English spoken, many regions of England use different words for the same thing. e.g. a MIDDEN in the north of England is an outside toilet in the south. Correct me if I'm wrong..lol
Nov 9, 2012 19:38:47 #
Nov 9, 2012 23:28:21 #
Oh yeah! How 'bout when yoos guys rent a camera, you say you hired a camera?
And how 'bout when we want to go to Worchester we say "take me to Wooster"?
Who's more screwed up? WE ALL ARE! Ain't it fun?
And how 'bout when we want to go to Worchester we say "take me to Wooster"?
Who's more screwed up? WE ALL ARE! Ain't it fun?
Nov 9, 2012 23:30:41 #
Nov 9, 2012 23:32:35 #
Wellhiem wrote:
A bit like autumn and fall. When the pilgrim fathers left England, we used to call it leaves fall. It just got shortened. But I'll never understand why the Americans say "erb" when the word "herb" quite clearly has an "h" in it.
Aren't you Brits the ones that don't pronounce the "h"?
Nov 9, 2012 23:48:14 #
Wellhiem wrote:
A bit like autumn and fall. When the pilgrim fathers left England, we used to call it leaves fall. It just got shortened. But I'll never understand why the Americans say "erb" when the word "herb" quite clearly has an "h" in it.
For the same reason we pronounce "honor" as on-er as opposed to hon-er. It clearly has an "h" as well.
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